Table of Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Author's Note xvi
Chapter 1 Pistol Packin' Mama Sally Skull 1
Chapter 2 Hang'er High Chipita Rodriguez 15
Chapter 3 Cathouse Madams: A Bevy of Shady Ladies 22
Chapter 4 The Sittin' Hens of the Chicken Ranch Mrs. Swine Jessie Williams Edna Milton 38
Chapter 5 Texas's Biggest Harlot Sarah Bowman 47
Chapter 6 Hell's Belle Belle Starr 55
Chapter 7 The She Devil and the Dark Angel Beulah Morose 67
Chapter 8 Mistress of the Manor Sophia Suttenfield Aughinbaugh Coffee Butt (or Butts) Porter 77
Chapter 9 A Mystery Wrapped in an Enigma Etta Place 89
Chapter 10 Neighbors from Hell Allen Hill, Dusky, Nance, and Family 101
Chapter 11 AKA Carlotta J. Thompkins, Mystic Maude, and the Angel of San Antonio Lottie Deno 114
Chapter 12 Nekkid, Nekkid, Nekkid! Adah Isaacs Menken 123
Chapter 13 A Good Girl Gone Bad Bonnie Parker 136
Chapter 14 It's Sad, So Sad Janis Joplin 156
Chapter 15 A Bad Girl Gone Good Karla Faye Tucker 172
Bibliography 195
Index 200
About the Author 207
